Generation: 1
Generation: 2
| 2. | John Perry, UE was born in 1765 in Massachusetts, USA (son of William Nelson Perry, UE and Catherine Agnes Williams); died in 1852 in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. Notes:
1796 - Loyalist oath of allegiance, with brother and father
Name: John Perry
Arrival Year: 1796
Arrival Place: Canada
Source Publication Code: 2060.17
Primary Immigrant: Perry, John
Annotation: Date and place of loyalist oath of allegiance. Extracted from RG1, L7, volume 52B District Loyalist Rolls and Others, located at the Manuscripts Division of the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa. File number, district name, township name, and index
Source Bibliography: FITZGERALD, E. KEITH. Ontario People: 1796-1803. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1993. 250p.
Page: 133
Occupation
Farmer; General Drummer Boy during the war (according to son Jeremiah's bible notes)
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Generation: 3
| 4. | William Nelson Perry, UE was born in 1740 in New York, USA (son of John Perry); died on 25 Apr 1797 in Loyalist Township, Ontario, Canada. Notes:
Will of William Parry [Sr.] of Ernestown; signed in handwriting by William Parry, dated October 14, 1795, probated April 25, 1797 by son, William Parry, signed with an 'x'. Requests were made to: Catarine my Dearly Beloved Wife - the farm whereon I know do live with all household goods and debts and movable effects till death; to my well beloved sons William Parry and Peter Parry, the said farm whereon I know do live with all farming utensils and stock of cattle to be equally divided between the two; to my beloved daughters Elizabeth Peters and Easter Parry, all the household funiture to be equally divided between the two. After the death of my wife Catarine, I give to my well beloved son John Parry one hundred acres of land yet to be drawn; to my well beloved daughter Sary Briggs one hundred acres of land yet to draw; to my well beloved daughter Elizabeth Peters one hundred acres of land yet to draw; to my well beloved daughter Easter Parry one hundred acres of land yet to draw. Witnessed by John Stover, Joseph Peters and Ely Peters.
--WILL - Ontario Archives, GS1, Reel 1223
Perry (Parry), William.... Ernesttown, Soldier Loyal Rangers, L.B.M. 1791, 400 acres, P.L. 1786, son William 200 acres, L.B.A. 1793
1735 year of birth calculated from age at time of death. ''Return of men from Captain Drummond's company (Loyal Rangers)'' in the war office papers vol. 10 gives his year of birth as 1740, but age listed in these types of records is not always accurate
Occupation
Soldier/Pvt., Loyal Rangers/Farmer
Military
1776
Age: 41
Ernestown, Lennox & Addington Co, Ontario, Canada
Perry, Senr., William. Parry do Soldier Loyal Rangers--L. B. M. 1791, 400 acres (P. L. 1786). Priv.
William married Catherine Agnes Williams in 1770. Catherine (daughter of Jeremiah Williams and Catherine Payson) was born on 3 Sep 1744 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1806 in Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 5. | Catherine Agnes Williams was born on 3 Sep 1744 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA (daughter of Jeremiah Williams and Catherine Payson); died in 1806 in Ontario, Canada. Children:
- 2. John Perry, UE was born in 1765 in Massachusetts, USA; died in 1852 in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
- William Perry was born in 1771; died in Jan 1838.
- Elizabeth Perry was born in 1774 in Loyalist Township, Ontario, Canada; died in 1828 in Loyalist Township, Ontario, Canada.
- Sarah Perry was born in 1774 in Loyalist Township, Ontario, Canada.
- Peter Perry was born on 14 Nov 1782 in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada; died on 24 Aug 1851 in Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada.
- Esther Perry was born on 8 Jul 1791 in Loyalist Township, Ontario, Canada; died on 19 Dec 1862 in Loyalist Township, Ontario, Canada.
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Generation: 4
| 11. | Catherine Payson was born in 1721 in Massachusetts, USA; died in 1764 in Massachusetts, USA. Children:
- 5. Catherine Agnes Williams was born on 3 Sep 1744 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1806 in Ontario, Canada.
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